Die Bantu-Philosophie von Tempels aus afrikanischer Perspektive

The study presents Placide Temples��� way towards the ���Philosophie bantoue��� and the repercussion of the latter in the African discourse. Three decisive aspects are investigated: first the prehistory, i.e., the socio-political, scientific and religious contexts, which prepared him and put him in an estate to discover that Africans do have a Philosophy, second his purposefulness and his singularity, and finally the history of its reception and the reactions by the African scholars and sages.

Philologos Kosmos. Kleine Schriften zur antiken Literatur, Naturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion

Aufsatzsammlung zum 80. Geb. des Autors

Paying with karma in the Buddha���s Flower Shop: Spiritual Economics in Early Indian Buddhism

Shen Weirong

Ethics, Interrupted: Community and Impersonality in Levinas

Despite the influence of Emmanuel Levinas���s ethics on the rethinking of community in post-identitarian terms (most prominently in the work of Maurice Blanchot, Alphonso Lingis, and, to a lesser extent, Jean-Luc Nancy), the question of community remains a problematic spot in Levinas���s own philosophy. I would argue that, instead of grounding a new thinking of community, the dyadic relation of Same and Other poses a structural problem when trying to open the ethical relation to the wider realm of others while keeping radical difference in place. As external observer and guarantor of justice, for instance, is the Third excluded a priori from the ethical relation? Is community always only another term for the political? Or, as Levinas himself puts it in Otherwise Than Being: ���What meaning can community take on in difference without reducing difference?��� Identifying in the notion of impersonality a way to access Levinas���s thought on community, this paper aims at rethinking the scene of address and the ethical relation in terms of displacement, dislocation and interruption.

Jehuda Hallevi's philosophy in its principles

by David Neumark